Dr. Russell Robert Deluca, MD

I went through a number of doctors who didn't take me seriously before I found Dr. De Luca to help me manage my post treatment issues and pain. I was quite traumatized by the time I found him. He has been sympathetic, through in persuing treatment options and very respectful most importantly. I would without any hesitation refer any oncology or patient struggling with post treatment issues to Dr. De Luca. And Kim on his staff is solid gold!

I’ve been a patient of Dr. DeLuca for two and a half years. He’s an amazing doctor. I’ve always found him to be compassionate and knowledgeable. Communication with him is always easy and informative. I firmly believe that his care and treatment has enabled me to carry on. I consider him to be not only my favorite doctor but also a friend. In fact, whenever I visit his office, I always feel like I’m among friends. He has an amazing staff.

Dr DeLuca is awesome! Very thorough! Very Personable! Put me completely at ease!!

Very easy to understand

Dr DeLuca is an amazing doctor. He took such great care of my husband. He knew I’m next what the problem was. For me, after visits to several different doctors; Dr DeLuca knew what was wrong after the first visit. He is treating me and I much better. He is a knowledgeable and compassionate doctor.

He is the best. He saved my life and kept me on track to live my best life.

Dr DeLuca is very personal and generally cares about his patients. I would not want another doctor taking care of me.

Dr. De Luca was incredibly disrespectful during our visit. His bedside manner is very poor and unprofessional.

My wife’s oncologist of over 5 years recently left Chesapeake Oncology and Hematology Associates. We were transferred to Russell Deluca. We were told by multiple staff that he was very different then our current Oncologist. In hindsight these were warnings. In the brief appointments we had with him, punctuality was clearly not his strength as we waited over half an hour each time and could clearly hear his voice through the walls spending more time with current patients. His visits were more like a poor attempt at a comic routine, reminding me of the annoying Mohel character from Seinfeld. Needless to say his bedside manner was completely lacking. What stood out is that he never introduced himself nor asked our names or relationship to each other. This was disappointing as our last Oncologist was very personable. Over the weeks, we were unaware of how dire my wife’s condition had become. It could be incompetence or cowardice, Deluca never told my wife the gravity of the situation and… that she did not have much longer to live. I knew this metastatic cancer would take her life; I just assumed we would be treated with a little dignity by being honest with us and not push false hope with more costly and painfully fruitless chemotherapy. She declined rapidly in the span of the next 2 weeks from walking on her own to using a cane, to using a walker, to needing a wheel chair, to being bedridden. Prior to her last week at home, we received calls from the office if her blood work had issues and if we needed to come in for IV treatment. We did not that week; I called and left a message with the phone service as she was becoming more lethargic. I initially believed that this was a chemo side effect. Eventfully as she continued to deteriorate and it was clear no one was calling me back, I called an ambulance. The ER doctor explained how terminal her condition was and that she did not have long. Deluca eventually shows up to the ICU. In the waiting room filled with my family and friends, he says “I inherited a bad case”- referring to my dying wife. Then tells me he was going to update me last week but did not have my cell phone number. At the time I was completely numb from the earlier news of my soulmate soon to be departing, but clearly I should have addressed his inappropriateness and let him know the office had multiple contact numbers he could have called, like the one on the unanswered message. It is definitely not a coincidence that out of to date 17 Claims totaling $55,372.21 for the last 3 days of my wife’s life at the hospital, Deluca’s $880 was the first submitted. For what - I’m not sure- walking from Tate Center to the Hospital, disrespectful comments, or making me aware how incompetent he and his staff is for not updating a patient’s grave condition or returning phone calls? I don’t blame him for my wife’s death; I blame him for making her death more difficult than it needed to be on so many levels.

Must has been having a bad day! Found him abrasive, impatient and all together 'not a very nice person'. IF one doesn't like the person, they won't like the DOCTOR in him. He also did not seem very well read when it came to my past, I will pass on him!